a reason diabetes is an inflammatory disorder
As we know, diabetes is an inflammatory disorder.
I’ve been looking harder into the exact causes of the inflammation, and
found Dr. Chilton’s new book The Inflammation Nation, which explains
the dietary insults in detail, based on six proper clinical studies as well
as current knowledge of inflammation.
Anti-inflammatory diets are provided. I got my copy on www.abe.com
for about $10, shipping included.
…diabetics do not normally make nough of the anti-inflammatory
essential fatty acid GLA, an anti-inflammatory fat. So, you
incorporate it into your food for example.
This information can add years and perhaps decades to peoples’
lives if they act on it.
May 22nd, 2006 at 4:10 am
Robert Ratliff wrote:
> Some authors would dis agree. Diabetes is caused by too many carbs in
> type II. Type I could be caused by inflammation.
Actually you are both right in this regard - as the "too many carbs" is
what causes the inflammation for several (not all) type II folks:-))
I am type 2 for example and have never eaten high carbs or even tasted a
soda drink. Those things just never did appeal to me, I’ve always been a
meat and eggs person. I eat some carbs, before exercise. Until I got ill
I was quite the skinny-melink too.
My type 2 is also caused by inflammation but not carb-induced
inflammation - in my case it is hormone-induced. I have cancerous
tumours that make cortisol (called carcinoids), and that is extremely
inflammatory.
I can quite believe you reversed it with sensible eating - it’s what Dr
Bernstein recommends in his book. Good for you for getting it done.
I’ve been trying to get mine better,and it is better but with the
cortisol tumours still churning it out, even a healthy pancreas could
not get anywhere.
What’s improved is my insulin levels. A year ago they were several times
the normal high. Last week’s latest tests show my fasting insulin is 7
with normal scale being 7 to 30.
So that suggests a healthy pancreas again but one blocked by cortisol in
terms of correct end result: I still need to inject insulin if I eat
carbs and do not immediately exercise them off, as the cortisol blocks
proper metabolism. (I do not need any medications other than that
occasional 2 to 4 units of insulin once or twice a week, mostly in
social situations.)
So inflammation is one way to cause diabetes, and there are many ways to
achieve the inflammation. Hi-carb diet is only one of those. Metabolic
imbalances are another route to the damaging inflammation and need a
totally different approach from that for dietary inflammation causes.
There’s no "one size fits all", even though inflammation is the result
of the different kinds of available damage.
There’s no one ideal diet:-) there’s no one ideal set of ratios of SCFA
sources, etc. It all depends on your individual source of inflammation.
It might be diet but not hi-carb diet, it could be a toxic diet full
of artificial sweeteners, soy, and hotdogs with nitrites and nitrates
for example. That’s not hi-carb but it is also inflammatory. My
situation is not the only hormone-imbalances one. Large numbers of the
population have hormone imbalances to some extent - certainly enough to
cause inflammation, so that’s several sources of inflammation depending
what hormones are involved. Then there’s skewed immune system
inflammation, wherein the cytokines of the immune system are out of
balance due to vaccinations and/or drugs. Worst offenders are catabolic
steroids like prednisone, and vaccinations (against anything) as these
do direct damage to the immune system and the needed balance between the
two main divisions (Th-1 and Th-2 cytokine activity).
The list of reasons for diabetes due to causes of inflammation goes on
and on. The mistake would be to call it dietary in all cases - or to
think that there is one diet that suits more than one person:-))
Namaste,
May 24th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Eat more protein. (and skip all the high-carb foods.)
Buy the book: Dr Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution".
A week after getting it my sugars which were fasting 180 were fasting
90, and never went over 110 even right after a meal.
> I’m convinced the
> carbs are the answer.
You are correct. Eat carbs - get blood sugar raised.
It’s that simple.
So eat more protein and good fat.
I needed quite a drastic change especially at first - to a calorie ratio
of 45% from protein (esp meat, fish and egg), 45% from fat (esp nuts,
olive oil and fish oil) and 10% from carbs (green and red veg and
mushroom.) Mainly do not stint on protein or you will get hungry.
Good luck!!!
Namaste,
May 28th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
I agree with Robert; although several toxins are noted to directly
cause diabetes by they impairing mitochondrial ATP production,
several foods create an environment in which the same outcome of
impaired energy occurs.
All this means is that "diabetes" is not a disease but a symptom of
interference of biological function. Many authors pin down toxin
load, inflammation, low oxygen delivery to cells, reduced ATP
production,as being behind it, but these reasons are not mutually
exclusive. I don’t believe any of them HAVE to be wrong.
To use Robert’s example above, carbs are known to increase
inflammation and interfere with metabolic processes through the
glucose/insulin interference. They reduce pH, which reduces oxygen
delivery to cells, and the inflammation yields blood coagulation
which also reduces cellular oxygen delivery and toxin removal.
But ANY immune disorder, not just diabetes, can result from this
scenario; in fact it’s no small wonder that cancer isn’t more
prevalent than it is. Dr. Warburg won two Nobel Prizes for making
this connection between pH, toxin load and cancer, which is a low
ATP energy generation "mitochondrial disorder" just like diabetes.
When you look at the mitochondrial impairment disorders you find
all of these diseases on the same page.